China's Power Appetite Wasteful?

I don't think anybody is under the illusion that China's power consumption isn't causing problems environmentally. They don't have alot of options at the moment, but the chinese government will show its true colors in the next 3-4 years, as its numerous alternative power generation projects start to come online in earnest. They really need to be pushing their nuclear/hydro/solar/wind development alongside the fossil fuels if they hope to maintain a marginally healthy populace. Already they are seeing the harmful health effects of their exponential industrial expansion, similar in many ways to the industrialization that the West went through a hundred and fifty years ago. Let's just hope they can keep their focus on the mistakes the West made and eventually corrected; then maybe they'll be able to balance their growth and avoid massive social upheaval as a result of disease and environmental contamination.